Green NGOs Position Paper on the Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution

In brief, our main points of criticism are:

• The unjustified very low level of ambition regarding the protection of health and environment – this must be raised, which in turn will require more far-reaching emission cuts than currently foreseen;
• The lack of specific elaborated proposals for further emission reductions;
• The failure to show how the objectives of the Sixth Environment Action Programme could be attained by 2020.